When the bank records of the doctor and the head of the infirmary were examined, everything became clear. The women of Block Z were being used as secret surrogate mothers.

Extremely wealthy people were paying enormous sums for their embryos to be carried by women who “would never be able to claim any rights.” The system was perfectly organized: false diagnoses, anesthesia, quick procedures, falsified records.

The inmates knew nothing. And when the first signs appeared months later, they thought it was something natural — who would have told them the truth?